this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Mozilla Firefox has merged Wayland fractional-scale-v1 protocol support for handling fractional scaling with the web browser on the Linux desktop.

Merged yesterday is the Wayland fractional-scale-v1 support for this fractional scaling that has been successfully tested with the KDE KWin compositor.

Unfortunately at the moment though this Wayland fractional scaling support is disabled by default: for now interested users will need to set the widget.wayland.fractional-scale.enabled preference for enjoying this fractional scaling support.

The Wayland fractional scaling support was tracked via this bug report.

It's great seeing Firefox finally supporting Wayland fractional scaling!

The fractional-scale-v1 protocol has been enjoying fairly robust support by the numerous Wayland compositors and seeing support within Google Chrome/Chromium web browser since earlier this year and also other desktop software like the MPV video player rather than being limited to integer-based scaling.


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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This summary is basically as long as the article

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

phoronix is very straight forward, so it's expected

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True. I opened an issue on the bot about ignoring short articles.
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I still appreciate not having to open a website.. there's way too much context switching on the web

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Still usefull because i dont have to load the site.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I hardly know anything about the graphics processing / posix, can someone explain why applications need to handle it themselves?